Elevator saddle



May 28, 1929. BULLOCK ET AL 1,715,188

ELEVATOR SADDLE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 13, 1928 I r i a J h 6 INVENTORS John Bullock BY laurzlz-Zllafour ATTORN EY WITNESSES Patented May 28, 1929.

unirnn starts i inane JOHN BULLOCK, on BROOKLYN, Ann LAUBITZ U, LAooon; or LONG ISLAND CITY,

NEW YonK.

- ELEVATOR sAnpLn.

Application filed June 13, 1928. Serial l\ T0.- 285,187.

sill in a single piece, providing in the saddle the number of grooves necessary for the goldan ce of elevator doors. Some sills have a single groove, others two grooves, others three grooves, and of course a sill may have any number or" groovesrand it, is the purpose of: my invention to provide a series of members with the employment 01"- which a saddle or sill may be provided having a desired number of grooves.

With these and other objects in' vie'w, the invention consists in certain noveljteatures of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be more fully here-- inatter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a View in cross section through our improved sill having two grooves with fragments of elevator doors shown to indicate their mounting relative to the grooves of the sill;

Figure 2 is a broken perspective view show- 7 ing our improved sill orsaddle having a sino egroove;

ET through our improved. saddle showing the parts arranged to :torm'three grooves Figures 42, 5, 6 and 7 are fragment- .1 v perspective views showing the dilterent elem nts which go to make up our improved sill, these elements being employed in any desired 7 number.

All sections or elements of our improved sill are preferably formed by extruding the metal, but of course the invention is not limited to any particular manner of forming the parts.

Our invention includes a plurality of different types or forms of strips, indicated in perspective in Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7, and given reference numerals 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively.

The strip 1 forms the nose or the front edge of the sill, the strip a forms the outer portion of the sill, and the strips 2 and 3 areforms of coupling strips connecting the strips and 4c:

igure 31s a view in transverse section to provide the necessary explained. All of these strips are preferably grooved or otherwise surfaced to prevent slipping, and they may boot any suitablemetalor other material. Y 3 The strip 1 has a depending flange 5 adiacent its front edge with a forwardly projectin bead 6 to give the proper finish to the edge grooves,as will be oit the elevator shaft.

The referencenumeral 7 indicates an elevaearner @FFICE.

tor, the referencenumerals 8 and 9 indicating doors, or sections of the same door, but for purposesofdescription I shall refer to these parts as doors.

A, downwardly projecting flange 10 is formed integrally on the strip 1, and "an integral inwardly projecting flange 11 is pro vided at the lower edge of flange 10. A groove 12 is'tormed in theunder taceof the strip 1 above the flange 11 so that a longitudinally I extending shoulder 13 is provided for spurpose which will he reinaiter appear. v

The section 2, which is a coupling section, has flanges 10 on ts edges with inwardly projecting flanges 11 thereon and grooves 12 with shoulders 13. We employ the same reference characters 10, 11, 12 and 13 to indicate like parts in each of the sections 1, 2, 3 and 4:.

The section 3 has flanges let extending downwardly from an intermediate tread portron, and lateralextensionsl5 areformed integral with the lower portions oi flanges l t.

Flanges 10 extend at right angles to the eirtension 1? and have integral, inwardly pro jecting flanges 11 thereon, and grooves 12 are provided in the extensions'lo forming shouldersiil, as clearly indicated inFigure 1.

The section t has at one edge an integraltl'ange 10 with an integral, inwardly projecting flange 11. thereon and is provided ith a recess or groove 12 forming the shoulder 13', as clearly indicated in Figure 7. The outer edge of section t is preferably formed with a flange 16 extendingat right angles thereto;

In forming the saddle or sill witlra sin-.

gle groove for the receptionot a guide pin or other device 1.7.011 the elevator door, we utilize sections 1, 2 aud t, as shown in Figure 2. These sections are securely coupled by positioning the inwardly projecting flanges 11 of the three members in coupled relation ship, that is, the flanges 11 of member 2 are positioned over the flanges 11 of members 1 andf i, with said flanges 11 of the respective members fitting in the grooves 12 of each spaced apart forming the groove for the elevator door pin. 7

When a two-groove sill or saddle is desired the section 3 is used in place of the section 2, and said sections 1, 3 and tare coupled by the same arrangement fianges'and grooves,

as clearly indicated in Figure l of the drawings.

Where a three-groove construction desired it is necessary to employ two sections 2 addition to the sections 1, 3 and 4t, as clearly indicated in Figure 8 of the drawings.

In the formation ofa sill or saddle having any desired number of grooves the sections are always coupled by the same arrangement of flanges and grooves and are joined by means of one part relative to the other, and there can be no lateral displacement after the parts are once coupled.

Itis this broad idea of the arrangement oi tongue and groove members whereby ,a plurality of sections may be utilized to form sills or saddles having any desired number of ceiving the flanges.

grooves that constitutes the broad idea of our invention, and We do not Wish to be limited to specific details of construction but desire to cover "the idea broadly as expressed in the appended claims.

We claim: v

1. As a new article of manufacture, an elevator saddlecomposed of a plurality'of sections having interlocking engagement, said interlocking engagement consisting of in Wardly projecting flanges on' the respective sections, and grooves in the respective sec tions receiving the overlapping flanges of the sections. i

2. An elevator sill or saddle composed of a plurality of sections, and coupling means connecting the sections and spacing them to form a groove.

3. An elevator Slll or saddle com arisinr a -l c l o plurality of standard sections having tongiiie and groove interlocking engagement, said seevtions coupled in any desired Way to form any desired number of grooves in the sill or saddle.

4. A sill or saddle comprising a plurality of interlocking longitudinal sections, all of said sections of general channel shape having inwardly projecting flanges, and grooves re- 'onNBULLooK. LAURITZ U; LACOUR. 

